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Building Great Careers In-House Western Law 2012 ALUMNI MAGAZINE Building Great Careers In-House ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Beryl says Goodbye Alumni Celebrated at Awards Ceremony IN THIS ISSUE DEAN’S MESSAGE OF NOTE COVER STORY: IN THE HOUSE PROFILE: DESIGNS ON THE FUTURE F EATURE STORY: ‘IRREPLACEABLE BERYL’ FACULTY RESEARCH ALUMNI AWARDS CLASS NOTES GIVING NEWS CLASS OF 2012 THE BACK PAGE Like us on facebook and follow us on twitter @UWOLaw On the cover: Jodi Becker ’99 of EllisDon in front of Toronto’s Union Station. Photo by Warren Toda. Western Law would like to thank The Law Foundation of Ontario for continued financial support of many of our programs. Editor: Susanna Eayrs Western Law Alumni Magazine 2012. Western Law Magazine is the alumni magazine of the Faculty of Editorial Board: Craig Brown, Matoula Charitsis, Mark Perry and Iain Scott Law, Western University, Canada. Contributing Writers: Susanna Eayrs and Drew Hasselback Photography: Craig Glover, Harold Godsoe, Rachel Lincoln, Paul Mayne, Post Publication Agreement No. 40710538. Ewan Nicholson, Geo! Robins and Warren Toda The views and opinions expressed in this magazine Editorial Assistants: Teresa Bourne and Tigger Jourard are those of the authors and not necessarily of Western Law. Design: TMD.CA Printer: Contact Creative Comments and contributions are welcomed. Please email Susanna Eayrs at [email protected] Copyright 2012. Western University Western Law 1 DEAN’S MESSAGE Western Law is Thriving W. IAIN SCOTT I welcome you to My first year as Dean was an inspiring We were also successful through the generous the 2012 edition and fulfilling experience. Even though contributions of a number of significant donors the global economic climate remains to advance our research and student experience of Western Law’s uncertain, Western’s global aspirations agenda. We remain committed to prudent alumni magazine. as a leading research-intensive management of our resources and aggressive I hope you will find educational institution are thriving. pursuit of funding opportunities to support our many interesting and In November of last year, under the academic objectives. leadership of alumnus W. Geo! Beattie In the pages to follow we profile a few engaging stories in ’84, Western University launched a new outstanding alumni who have taken diverse and the following pages. brand and capital campaign that unifies exciting career paths. Our graduates now enter an and directs our collective e!orts under increasingly global legal community and expanding the progressive leadership of President and diverse business and public sector spheres. We Amit Chakma. are committed to providing our students with the At Western Law, there have been a experience and academic skills that will allow them number of positive changes. Jennifer to navigate these challenging times. Farrell and Zoë Sinel were recently Finally, let me join you in wishing Beryl recruited as our newest members of the Theobald a happy and fulfilling retirement. Many, Faculty – we’re delighted to have them if not most of you, have known Beryl during her 33 join us. Our faculty research continues years at Western Law – she actually is responsible to flourish and our mooting teams for the admission of many of you! Beryl will retire enjoyed unprecedented success this in December although as you might expect, has past year. agreed to stop by if we need her advice and good counsel in the months to follow. On behalf of all of us at Western Law – past and present – best wishes, Beryl, in the years to come. 2 2012 WESTERN LAW ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF NOTE LAWRENCE SUMMERS ADDRESSES FINANCIAL CRISIS AT BEATTIE LECTURE Lawrence H. Summers, one of the most influential and outspoken crisis with which the Administration was economists in the world today, spoke at Western Law on November 22, confronted, the U.S. economy might well have 2011 as the Fourth Annual Beattie Family Business and Law Speaker. plummeted into far more dire circumstances in Summers, President Emeritus of Harvard University, addressed the absence of the measures that were taken. a broad range of current issues with his characteristic directness, He also reflected on the promise o!ered by insight and wit. Prominent financial journalist Chrystia Freeland, the expanding use of complex empirical data editor of Thomson Reuters Digital, moderated the session before to improve decision making, the impact of a standing-room-only crowd. technology and globalization, the unique role Summers was a former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 1999 played by institutions of higher education and to 2001 during President Clinton’s Administration and, more recently, the importance for people in Western nations to was Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama’s avoid insularity and acquire knowledge – deep Administration from 2009 until earlier this year. knowledge – about other nations and cultures. He provided an engaging and illuminating illustration of how the W. Geo! Beattie ’84, President & CEO of leadership styles of these two Presidents di!ered, highlighting the the Woodbridge Company Limited and Deputy importance for leaders to remain true to themselves and to play to Chairman of Thomson Reuters, generously their own unique strengths and personal characteristics. established the Beattie Family Lecture Series in Summers, who played a key role in the development of policy Business Law in 2008. Past speakers in this series decisions responding to the recent financial and economic crisis, include economist Robert Shiller, Nobel Prize- frankly acknowledged that “no one could be happy” with the current winning economist George Akerlof, and Leo E. Strine state of the American economy. He noted, however, that there are Jr., Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery. compelling reasons to believe that given the international financial LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS Western Law 3 NEW ASSOCIATE DEAN STUDENTS SCORE MOOT SUCCESS APPOINTMENTS W. Iain Scott is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Erika Chamberlain as Associate Dean (Academic) and the re-appointment of Professor Craig Brown, as Associate Dean (Administration), both for three-year terms e!ective July 1, 2012. “I am delighted that Erika will be joining Craig and me in leading our faculty over the ensuing three years,” said Dean Scott. “We’ll be undertaking a number of progressive changes over this period and their BEN REINGOLD AND CHARLIE PETTYPIECE ERIKA CHAMBERLAIN combined experience Western Law students have completed a successful year of mooting, and perspective will be crucial to Western Law’s securing a number of impressive finishes at regional, national and continued success.” international competitions. Erika Chamberlain graduated as gold medalist Ben Reingold and Charlie Pettypiece won the best mooting team from Western Law in 2001 and joined the Faculty at the fourth annual Harold G. Fox Intellectual Property Moot. of Law in 2005. Her doctoral dissertation at Coached by Professor Nina Khouri, James van Wyck, Rachel Slingerland, the University of Cambridge focused on the Stephanie Doucet and Justin Dick were awarded Best Applicant Memorial conceptual evolution of the duty of care in for their written brief/factum at this year’s Niagara International Moot negligence. She has authored numerous articles Court Competition held in February in Washington, D.C. on tort law, with a particular focus on the tort Western Law took the Best Team award in the second annual liability of public authorities, and has also Donald G. Bowman National Tax Moot, Canada’s first competitive published extensively in the field of impaired moot on taxation, held in Toronto on March 2-3, 2012. The winning team driving law and alcohol-related civil liability. included Josh Kumar, Kristine Spence, Brent Harasym, Michael Royal Craig Brown graduated LLB (Hons.) from and Christine Arruda, with team coach Professor Colin Campbell. the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1973. Julie Menten garnered three awards at the 2012 Ontario Trial Lawyer’s He earned an LLM from the University of Illinois Association (OTLA) Cup held at the Ottawa Courthouse on March 3, in 1977 and an LLD from the University of Otago 2012. Menten won awards for Best Cross-Examination, Best Overall in 1994. He has been on the Faculty of Law at Advocate and, along with team member Odette Ansell, Best Team. Western University since 1977. Professor Brown’s Lyndsey Kiser was awarded the second oralist prize, beating out academic and professional more than 51 speakers at the Davies Corporate/Securities Law Moot. interests focus on insurance Ed O’Dwyer and Tori Crawford secured the Hicks Cup at the Hicks law and torts. He is the Morley Labour Arbitration Moot on March 23 in Toronto. author of Insurance Law in Anna Tombs was awarded best oralist in the final rounds of the Canada (now in its seventh Canadian division of The White & Case Canadian National Division student edition) a work that Qualifying Tournament of the 2012 Jessup International Law Moot has been cited frequently by Court Competition. appellate courts in Canada, In early April, students Daniel Hynes and John Mather won an including the Supreme Court honorable mention in the C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration CRAIG BROWN of Canada. Moot in Vienna, which featured 282 schools competing from 68 countries. It was the first time Western Law students took part in this prestigious international moot court competition. 4 2012 WESTERN LAW ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF NOTE CHALLENGING ORTHODOXY CONFERENCE Western Law hosted the sixth biennial conference on the Law of Obligations from July 17-20, 2012. With a theme of “Challenging Orthodoxy,” the conference featured more than 60 speakers from throughout the common law world. They presented on leading edge topics in torts, contracts, equity, unjust enrichment and private law theory, suggesting new approaches to both traditional and emerging issues. The plenary speakers included Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and Justice Thomas Cromwell (Supreme Court of Canada), John Goldberg (Harvard), Andrew Robertson (Melbourne), Ernest Weinrib JASON NEYERS, ERIKA CHAMBERLAIN, THE RIGHT HON.
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